To identify factors affecting the implementation of new science curricula a questionnaire survey of principals and teachers in California and Nevada secondary schools was used to select a sample of schools using Chemical Education Materials Study (CHEM Study) or Introductory Physical Science (IPS). Interview data collected when these 67 schools…

This paper examines the status of comprehensive planning for educational reform in the Federal Republic of Germany. Although a late entrant among the European nations engaged in school reform, West Germany is now heavily involved in the problems and politics of structural change. A "General Plan for Education," calling for widespread…

Describes the goals, operation, results and evaluation of the adoptive parent education program of the Children's Home in Cincinnati, Ohio, in operation since 1973. (ED)

This paper reports on research addressed to the attitudes and feelings of birth parents years after they relinquished babies for adoption. It discusses reasons for relinquishment, parental fantasies about the child, parental interest in reunion with the child, and parental feelings about opening the sealed records. Advocates reunion and research.…

Administrative experimentation includes a class of heuristics for obtaining feedback on management decisions in what amounts to a continuous trial and error process. Available from Management Science, Institute of Management Sciences, Circulation Dept., 345 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511; single copy $4.50. (Author/IRT)

Motivational factors affecting decisions to discontinue existing minicourse programs or to not consider the adoption of minicourse programs tend to be programmatic and administrative rather than philosophical. (Author/IRT)

Presenting national statistics on single-parent families, this article illustrates the need for serious study of this phenomenon, suggesting that changing divorce laws, increased single-parent adoptions, and an increase in the number of supportive services for single-parent families are contingencies having significant bearing upon the…

Results of a national and regional survey of headteachers' familiarity with and reported adoption of twenty-five curriculum projects. (Author)

Methadone has been defined as an agent to draw addicts out of the street life into "straight" society. However, the complementary perspective of the streets sees methadone as a new, widely available drug to be integrated into a subculture previously dominated by heroin. This article discusses the adaptation to methadone and its…

Examines the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, assesses the applicability of the commission's findings to one high school, identifies problems in implementing the commission's recommendations in the high school studied, and, on the basis of this analysis, considers a national commission's role in generating local…

Describes principals' responsibilities in overseeing educational technology. Outlines computer knowledge and skills principals should possess about hardware, software, word processing, data bases, spreadsheets, integrated software, and school applications (scheduling, grading, recording attendance, budgeting, maintaining inventories, etc.).…

Relates Katherine Paterson's fictional child, Gilly Hopkins, to foster children's search for their own life stories. (HOD)

Music teachers must learn to read and analyze research studies and apply the research findings to their teaching. The author's experience in conducting workshops to help teachers analyze research reports shows that teachers are capable of making transfers and generalizing from research results to their own situation. (RM)

Examines existing studies on adolescents' decision making about adoption and parenting and proposes some theoretical and methodological considerations for future investigations. Concluded that this issue has been inadequately researched and that most of the literature does not consider the capacity of adolescents to make decisions. (LLL)

The Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services (DHHS) highlights Federal legislation and involvement in the field of adoption and foster care, with a focus on handicapped children. Private sector involvement is also discussed. (CMG)